D.A. Powell

D. A. Powell is the author of 5 collections of poems, including Useless Landscape or a Guide for Boys (2013), recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco.

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Against Officialese: On Solmaz Sharif’s Look by D.A. Powell

This entry was posted in Editors' Selections and tagged D.A. Powell on October 14, 2016 by Kristina Marie Darling

    Poetry can be supremely palliative, adding beauty where little is found or providing therapeutic relief from emotional disquiet. Though I do not wish to diminish nor denigrate those invaluable benefits of our art, it simply cannot be the case that poetry serves only to dress up plain speech […]

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An Introduction to D.A. Powell by Shane McCrae

This entry was posted in Editors' Selections and tagged D.A. Powell Shane McCrae on October 14, 2016 by Kristina Marie Darling

    Introducing D. A. Powell’s “Against Officialese: On Solmaz Sharif’s Look,” I am responding to a response to a response. This, I want to say, seems to me a profoundly American thing to do—the United States of America is, after all, an echo of responses. But the United States […]

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